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Lambertia echinata subsp. occidentalis Keighery

Reference
Nuytsia 11(2):283-284 (1997)
Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Prickly, much-branched, non-lignotuberous shrub, to 3 m high. Fl. yellow, Feb or Apr or Dec. White sandy soils over laterite, orange/brown-red clay over ironstone. Flats to foothills, winter-wet sites.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 19 May 2003
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets hairy. Leaves whorled, 10-30 mm long, 5-8 mm wide, hairy or glabrous; lamina flat, widest around the middle or clearly widest above the middle, once divided, pinnately divided, entire or shallowly divided, the margins flat; apex pungent, 1.2-2 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; innermost bracts 22-27 mm long. Perianth 40-42 mm long, glabrous; pistil 42-45 mm long, style hairy. Flowers in February, March, April or December. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Perth.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Busselton.